The Biology of Belief

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Bruce Lipton: The Biology of Belief, Fall 2009 Transcript

[Initial introduction has not been recorded] ...that civilization as we have known it is coming to a very abrupt end... very, very soon. And the significance is, you look out and you see all the crisis, we can talk about it - global warming. We can talk about the food industry that you've just heard about. We can talk about the political upheaval, the healthcare crisis, and we can go on and on and on. And then you try to say, well I mean, it's like all of it is coming at one point. And the reason why is because they are symptoms of something that is so profoundly important and such a major upheaval that's coming so quickly that actually the book is written out, that are put out, that's called Spontaneous Evolution Because within a very short time, within 2 years, maybe even within a few months. Everything the way the world has been running is going to turn upside down. It's going to be blown away. It's going to be very exciting! And the reason why it's important for you is this: There are the generations called the X, Y, Z: the alphabet generation ? which I assume we're all a part of. And the relevance about the alphabet generation is that there was a discontinuity between the previous generations. Everything up to the previous generation was "Yeah, my children are going to do better than I'm going to do and we're making a world for my children" Then of course when parents own five BMW's and a mansion for two people and a kid, and it's hard ? how is that kid going to grow up and do better than that? And so it's very interesting because they reach the point where your prospects seem like: "How they hell can I keep up with it? I can't even pay the rent, I'm having trouble getting the food covered and everybody's talking about how the kids are always going to do better than the parents"

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It's obviously for awhile, that it's not even going to look that way, especially for you, and why this is relevant is this: This is not a coincidence! This is part of an evolutionary upheaval. Your role in it is actually, guess what, to be detached from the structure. To not be part of the structure at all! And the reason why this is an important role for you is very simply this: You can't take down the structure if everybody is holding onto the structure! If everybody said "This is the way we all wanted!" and held onto the structure, the structure cannot change. But now we got nearly 50% of the population and that includes you that are not part of the structure and we can actually say: "Who cares?" Who cares what happens up there and what all these people are doing on Wall Street and the banks Who cares about that? Because you're not part of it. And it's a good reason why you're not part of it Because you don't have any reason to hold onto this thing. And as a result as the change starts to come it will happen very quickly because such a large portion of the population does not have any investment in this particular structure right now And yet why this is important is because when the upheaval comes: it's being handed to you! And when the upheaval comes, it's also important for this: It takes you to a new level of thinking, gives you a different way of looking at life. Technology that doesn't even exist at this moment. 2005 ? 60% of college graduates had jobs when school ended. Last year, it was 20% and it's going down lower. And the relevance is that the future doesn't offer you the jobs that we're having now But the future offers you new stuff that's not even evolved at this moment But there're so many new jobs, new industries, and new technologies evolving everyday So my point about this is specifically for you is very simply this You're in a state of upheaval.

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[THE BIOLOGY OF BELIEF] Bruce Lipton | Fall 2009

You feel disconnected from the situation. It seems out of hand... And it is. And the reality is that everything is in its right place You are in the right place for the next evolutionary leap to come And I'll explain why the end is coming And that's basically because the reason why civilization is coming to an end And it's actually an understandable reason So it's not mystical or metaphysical or magical And it's based on understanding this: That civilizations, like people, have life cycles Anything like an organization like that grows It evolves and then develops and matures and ultimately declines So when we talk about a civilization or an individual human over time what we can talk about is a period of development and then a slope and then a decline And what's this really associated with? The first phase of a child's life or civilization's life is, in this developmental phase, is experiment. That's what kids do. They go out and try all different kinds of things So when the civilization, and the young one that is forming right now, try things, try all new kinds of things Why? Because existing things don't work really well. So you try things that are new. Once you start to establish a way of life, then unfortunately, the ideas start to get very rigid. So, just like parents, you grow up. They were wild as kids and then they reach the parent stage and guess what?

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[THE BIOLOGY OF BELIEF] Bruce Lipton | Fall 2009

They became very damn rigid and there outlook and everything became "That's just the way life is" And they held on to that belief and try to get you to conform to that when you were in your experimental phase So the idea is this: Civilization like parents grow up and become rigid. But when you become rigid in a world that is dynamically evolving, nothing in the universe stays the same. That is the one truism ? it's always changing. So basically it says this: How can you live into a future if you hold onto a rigid idea? The rigid idea generally causes challenges, the challenges from following these rigid beliefs. Then cause us to do what? Causes people to start pull out of the system! And when they start to pull out of the system, the system starts to decline And as it starts to go down, the old beliefs fall away. But guess what? As the old ones are going down, something else is happening A new one is beginning. So where are we today? We're in this civilization that is crashing at this moment with you as part of this civilization that is moving upwards right now. This has happened repeatedly through Western history. It has happened over and over again. So if I go back over Western history, I can talk about there's a period called Animalism Which is like the Native Americans, the druids in Europe, the aborigines in Australia, the Indians in South America. Animists.

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[THE BIOLOGY OF BELIEF] Bruce Lipton | Fall 2009

And then that way of life left and turned into polytheism. And polytheism, the many god things Egyptian, Romans, Greeks and all that. Yeah, but the Roman Empire fell as well. When the Roman Empire fell, it fell because monotheism came in as a new belief system and a new culture. Christian monotheism took over the beliefs of polytheism, and then monotheism began to crash. And when it began to crash, it actually began scientific materialism. The current version of our culture today, and it's called scientific materialism for a reason and I'll explain It has existed and now is in its decline and the new one is beginning. You say what is the pattern here? What does it represent? Why the pattern? And the fact is "Ah, that is a very interesting question" Because here is an interesting answer All civilization or culture is based on a set of beliefs And since the dawn of civilization, since the dawn of humanity, people have always felt there were two parts of the world that you live in. The physical world that you see right here and an invisible world which has great influence over the visible world. So we as early humans, first decided there were two realms ? The physical realm that you can see and touch and an invisible realm. And over history, what you are going to see is whether we believe more in the invisible realm or whether we believe more in the physical realm ? these are the changes that are occurring. And why this becomes relevant is because we're in a process of change So if I said to you: "I want to make a chart, and this is a chart that's like a color gradient, the more yellow it is the more you believe in spirit is primary" Because I said if you were back in the ancient days, some people say no because the material world is really what's real and that's what you want to be in it

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[THE BIOLOGY OF BELIEF] Bruce Lipton | Fall 2009

And another group will go and say: The material world is get in your face man, what you really want to be is in some invisible place, somewhere else. That's the story of Judism-monotheism isn't it? Isn't the church's story was the earth is damned the physical world is a temptation? And what was the function? To be here, to live out plays of morality, to see if you're worthy to go to the higher place, which is where? Not here And so that was the whole mission So the question is: Do you believe in the spiritual realm as being more dominant? So I make a gradient where no color is zero, and when you get a full yellow it's a hundred percent. And I say in contrasting gradients is this: Do you believe in the material world as the primary reality that exists, and I would say another gradient, but it's a reverse gradient. If you don't believe in the material world you're up here, and if you believe the material world is primary, you're down here. Now you look at the two gradients, and actually, I combine them together And when you combine them together, it looks like this: where the 50/50 mark is if you're up here you emphasize the spiritual realm as being more important than the physical realm And if you're down here, you emphasize the material realm as being the most relevant and that spiritual may not even be existent! And so depends on where you are on the chart And here's what's interesting Where you are on the chart, as this is where it all comes down to, the reality of what's happening right now and it goes like this There are things called the perennial questions These 3 major questions and the perennial questions ask for thousands and thousands of years And here are the 3 questions - they've been asked forever:

1) How did we get here?

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[THE BIOLOGY OF BELIEF] Bruce Lipton | Fall 2009 2) Why are we here? 3) How do we make the best of it? And you say what's relevant about this and here's what I'm going to tell you

This is a fact!

A civilization finds answers to these questions from some source

A single entity, an organization or whatever gives an answer and the group of you all say "Yeah! That sounds really cool! We believe that, that's a really good one"

When you accept the answers and here's the catchy part

When you accept the answers from some entity or organization and they provide answers and you accept that.

Here's the fun part.

You make them the truth-provider for you culture and for your civilization

Whoever gives you these answers, they are also the source of your truth.

So if you want to find out anything you say "Who gave me the answers? I want to go back and get the other things I want to know from them"

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